Avesta Capella

I lived here for a year and in that time the staff has changed more than once and they clean and organize their office more than what they actually do for the apartments.
The trash is always over flowing and people play loud music pretty much every other night. The apartment we had was super infested with roaches. We had them spray a few times and nothing helped. «Gated community», yeah right. Both gates are broken all the time. The laundry facilities are shit, most don’t work, it smells horrid in there. People throw their trash everywhere, it disgusting. Not to mention there are a bunch of parents who don’t watch their children and they knock on the door and run off every single day I lived there.
It was the worst thing I have experience and I will never come back.

Wow, I saw the other reviews and I have to say, Avesta isn’t perfect. But it’s still liveable. The grounds are well kept. The office people are pretty nice and understanding. The maintenance people are all very nice and helpful. Unfortunately, there’s a very slight bug problem. But it’s not even inside my apartment, it’s only on the balcony and front door area. The irritating part it when they TURN THE WATER OFF mid-​day without alerting residents. So it sucks for those of us who need to shower and stuff before work at 4pm after working out. I had to call the office to figure out what was going on. Glad I wasn’t choking and needed water. The laundry facilities were previously awful but they renovated and I love it. As a single college student, I’d live here again. Maybe not if I had a family. It’s kind of a «rough around the edges» neighborhood. Not too bad though.

they always say they did not receive money for the utility and need to pay twice. If something breaks down in your apartment, they do not repair at all.

Moving here was a big mistake; I eagerly await my lease’s expiration.
Parking is a nightmare. Security is a joke. The grounds are perpetually filthy. The laundry room is laughable.
My mail frequently goes missing, and I don’t know if it’s a USPS issue or not, but that matters little when I fail to receive cards and small packages.
There is NEVER a notice in the box when a package is in the office.
They never alert you.
When you ask for your package, it is common to be told it isn’t there. Even if you have delivery confirmation, it’s a struggle to get your stuff.
Noise is a serious issue. Beer bottles litter the grass. The gate has been broken for so long I forgot the code.
There is no recycling.
I am very unhappy here.

I wish I could give negative stars.
This place is a wasteland.
Last year APD found a dead woman in the field next door.
Security is non existent, they’ve got signs up and maybe you’ll see them once a week driving through but don’t expect them to do anything.
If you do have to call 911 because, for instance, someone is beating their girlfriend bloody in front of your apartment, or your neighbors are drunk and throwing bottles around while screaming at each other in the middle of the night 911 shows up decently fast.
They don’t however bother showing up for noise complaints, which you will have early and often.
Multiple times we’ve been told by the police to go inside while they conduct a man hunt in the parking lot.
Washer and dryers are filthy and often don’t work.
The office staff is incompetent. There’s a constant turn over. The people they manage to hold on to often offer you rolled eyes, shrugs and «I dunnos» when asked to perform their jobs.
The mail is a constant struggle. If the office doesn’t return your package to the sender they’ll sign for it and often lose it.
If you do have something delivered small enough to fit in a mailbox it will somehow mysteriously end up missing.
The property grounds are constantly covered in trash. Broken bottles, crushed cans, diapers, or broken glass are scattered around randomly on a daily basis.
If the maintenance staff responds to your requests often they will «take a look,» do nothing and claim whatever was requested was fixed.
They will come in unannounced, leave dirty footprints all over your floor and even have it in them to leave the door wide open when they’re done.
The ac consistently doesn’t work.
The doors and locks are falling apart.
The parking lot is always packed. If you ask the staff where to park they will insist you’re a liar and that the lot is often not completely full.
I was once towed because the tower didn’t see my parking permit.
Everything about the interior is cheap. The bathtubs were painted white to look new, as a result they’re cracking, peeling and falling apart.
The water, typically coming from even a recently the toilet will smell like rotten eggs. It can be so potent you can smell it from the front door.
Mirrors, nobs, drawers, hooks and rods all constantly fall apart when touched.
The front gate has worked roughly 10% of the time I’ve lived here.
Under zero circumstances should anyone consider living here. They should let the current tenants run out their leases here till the place is completely empty, then burn it down to the ground. Salt the earth so that nothing could possibly grow in it’s lot.
Large closets.

DO NOT LIVE HERE! I repeat, DO NOT MOVE INTO AVESTA CAPELLA! This review is as of July 21, 2015. Management is shady and no one in the office will ever be able to help you. Not to mention, the «manager» (who’s somehow a man and a woman depending on who you speak with which makes you wonder if they even exist) is never in and doesn’t even have a number to be reached at.
I’ve had nothing but hell since moving in. First they didn’t have my apartment ready on move-​in day (I actually had to call APD for them to give me my keys). Then I’ve had problem after problem with maintenance concerns (pest control mainly). Once maintenance even entered my apartment without informing me and left the apartment unlocked and unattended. After all of that, my lease is up in August and I’ve been asking for a renewal form since June. I finally got the renewal form on JULY 20^th and it states I have to give 60 day notice for vacating the apartment (but remember they only gave me the renewal form July 20^th).
Not to mention they refused to put a screen door on my patio door, they haven’t fixed the front gate in months and the «security» doesn’t even do their job. They may make one trip around the complex and that’s it.
Let’s also add that they have the worst parking rules an apartment can have. They claim its for safety but hasn’t fixed the front gate since the near year started. The ENTIRE complex has to share maybe 15 – 20 visitor parking spaces. And please do let a friend or family member visit, Avesta has to have a deal with J&J Towing because they’re always trolling trying to tow someone’s car.
Once again, DO NOT LIVE HERE. There are better options in Austin that are still affordable! Trust me! I’m a recent graduate and I wanted to save money. I’ve found way better options with the same rent prices or maybe a bit higher (but you get what you pay for). Don’t make the same mistake.

Avesta capella is horrible!!! we moved here not to long ago from california and we visited austin a year ago to apartment hunt we saw avesta and checked out the apartments and they seemed amazing well the day to move came and my husband said that what we saw the time we visited was not what we got! the bed rooms were smaller than what we saw the kitchen was smaller and to top it off IT WAS DIRTY!!!
then that night we saw our first cockroach in the bed room then one in the kitchen we told the office and the snotty girl said you have to wait till next Thursday! we found a total of 5 before they came to exterminate. then 2 days later the stove and oven broke. they did not fix it for 3 days ! then we got our washer and dryer delivered and the guy said the hot water tube needed to be replaced and THEY STILL HAVE NOT then we found more cockroaches and even lizards! the pest guy said oh they must have come in from outside and did nothing to get rid of them… and people here are very unfriendly so people stay away from here i can’t wait till our lease is up!